BACKGROUND Large family size may be a risk factor for childhood accidents. A possible association with quality of child supervision and rapidity of seeking medical care has not been fully evaluated. OBJECTIVES To determine whether children with multiple siblings are at increased risk for accidents, to assess whether quality of child supervision varies with family size, and to evaluate the rel...

Controlling robotic devices from remote places, using an existing, wide spread network is significantly extend their application. Internet, considering its wide spread and accessibility, is and ideal media for data transmission between a robot and its operator, but the limitation in bandwidth, the notable delay, and the unreliability of the network introduces several problems. Proposals for com...

In this paper a new open platform for experimentation in tele-manipulation tasks is presented. The main goal is to obtain an open system with several features in order to evaluate different factors like kinematics relations between master and slave, haptic feedback, bilateral control, communications bandwidth, manmachine interface with the operator, and other factors that can affect the results...

So far, Earth-based space science has been carried out from a few dedicated facilities, with scientists working away from their home institution and with limited participation of the science community to the experiments. A better approach to ground control of space experiments would consist of deploying a network of operation stations located at various institutions and connected via Internet t...

The overall goal of the research conducted in this paper is to develop next generation force feedback systems by combining novel Magnetorheological (MR) fluid based systems with microstructural analysis and advanced control system design. Two MR fluid based telerobotic systems are designed, prototyped and tested with medical applications. Force feedback control is employed to replicate in the m...